When to start planting perennials
How To Successfully Plant Perennials / Joy Us Garden
hi it's now and welcome to my garden
today I'm going to be doing some
planting and I want to show you how to
plant a perennial this is salvia Grady
ice Sparkle and I'm going to get it in
the ground and show you how I do it okay
so I have such a small space out and I'm
going to dig the hole this uh garden was
worse over last fall it's no spring so
it's not too hard to dig in to work in
and what you basically want to do is dig
the hole about a deep SZ as the root
ball but you want it to be about twice
as wide so those roots can easily grow
okay so the hole is dug there were a
couple of big pieces of root in there
which I cut out perennials have a little
bit finer root system then do shrubs or
trees so you want to make sure that they
can really spread their roots easily and
the plant that I'm planting the salvia
is really well watered because you never
want to plant a dry or a stressed plant
in case you don't follow me or haven't
seen anything on my channel I live in
Tucson Arizona
it is early April and it's already
pretty warm we haven't had any rain and
at least a month and a half so gotta
give it a good gonna give it a good
drink and I'm going to let it all absorb
and if you mid someplace where it rains
a lot and it's pretty wet and the ground
is wet you don't have to worry too much
about it but I moved here from
California and we always watered we
always watered the whole just to make
sure it was all nice and moist okay so
the water is going down a bit and I'm
going to put in some good local organic
compost so this whole bed was compost in
the fall
when the plans were taken out put some
in there and then I'll also put them
around when I plant if you like to use a
fertilizer you can I'm much more of a
composter I like to build the soil up
and I'm going to put a little water over
the compost to make sure that it's all
nice and moist because you want to give
your plants a good start in life okay to
get the plant out of the pot it
oftentimes comes out if you just sort of
squeeze the pot and you can just pull it
out that way that works but if it's
really tough what I have done many many
times if you just gently step on the pot
putting a little bit of pressure on to
loosen it and that worked
99.9 percent of the time for us and then
you can just pull it out like that and
you can see this through the roof well
here isn't too bad it's not too badly
pop down so I'm going to just kinda
loosen the bottom a little bit to loosen
up the roots just kayak and give them a
little goose here and there and that is
all you need to do okay so now I have
the plant in the hole and I want to turn
it and look for what I think is the good
side force here that's how I want it and
it's up a little bit in the hole about a
quarter of an inch but that's okay
because I'm going to compost is said I'm
going to put about an inch of compost
after we get the drip system all
straightened out so it's okay if it's up
shift just a little bit so now I'm going
to start to just fill in with the native
soil because you want to use a lot of
the native soil and I'm just going to
put Hansel
compos around and I'm going to layer it
that way I don't want any of the roots
these these are bleep in here just did
the soil and again I'm going to water as
I go so I have it almost all filled in
here and now around the top few inches
I'm going to go ahead and put in some
worm compost I really love to use worm
compost it's one of my favorite a
mandamus besides besides the organic
compost here's the cocoa cloth and I'm
just going to continue to fill the hole
in and there you go oh yeah and the root
ball will be covered by the compost when
it's all put on beautifully and that is
all you need to do and now I'm just
going to give it one good last watering
so that is how I plant perennials I
planted the gaillardia the same way I
would plant a penstemon that way
lavender on and on it's not hard to do
it's just a little bit of prep goes into
it and just make sure that the plant is
well watered and the hole is moist
before you plant
I'm obviously planting these perennials
in spring which is a good time to do it
because the selection is good oh there's
my cat Oscar the selection is good and
it's not too terribly hot yet so they
have a little bit of time to adjust but
fall is a great time to plant perennials
just as long as it's a with enough time
before the first frost comes because the
fall is great because fall or late
summer because it's warm the evenings
are getting a bit cooler and the plants
can adjust fine but if you plant your
perennials in this in the summer in the
heat with which you can just be sure
that you water them very very well but
this spring and fall are great times to
plant this cheery perennial here is go
already a sunset cutie I planted it
about a week and a half ago or so and I
planted these from a one gallon pop
perennials grow fast these will probably
be grown out by the end of the season in
September here there'll be a great size
you can also plant them from four inch
pots I've done that many times and they
grow real fast that way too if you want
an instant border of something you could
always do five gallon but you don't need
to do don't need to do that with
perennials they are the pretties of the
border they really fill everything in
and bring a little life in color so I
hope you have found this video about
planting perennials to be helpful
especially if you're a beginning
gardener it's not that hard to do it all
just follow a few steps and you will be
successful and be sure to check out the
blog post that goes along with this I
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now let's get out in the garden plant
some perennials and make our world a
more beautiful place I have a lot more
videos coming your way so be sure to
come back as always I thank you so much
for watching bye
